This weekend, the New York Times published an op-ed by David L. Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, in which Kirp portrays the rollout of the Common Core State Standards as “mishandled” and attempts to use it as an opportunity to blame the Obama administration.
While Ann Whalen questions his conclusions on our blog, we wanted to make sure to get the facts straight here:
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